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screen saver

screen saver is the alternative spelling of screensaver.

Meaning of screensaver

Noun

screensaver (plural screensavers)

  1. A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used, originally intended to prevent screenburn.
    • I configured my screensaver to appear after only two minutes, because I enjoyed watching it so much.
  2. (proscribed) The background picture of a computer, smartphone, or similar mobile device.
    • But she changed her screensaver, which was a photo of Julian eating scrambled eggs—he was smiling, holding his fork away from himself, as if he were waving the eggs at her—and replaced it with a photo of Olivia, looking up from her desk […]2008, Joshua Henkin, Matrimony, Vintage, →ISBN, page 163

Forms of screen saver

pluralscreen savers

Questions about screen saver

What is screen saver the alternative spelling of?
Screen saver is the alternative spelling of screensaver.

Words near screen saver in the dictionary

  1. screen prints
  2. screen protector
  3. screen protectors
  4. screen reader
  5. screen readers
  6. screen saver
  7. screen savers
  8. screen scraping
  9. screen share
  10. screen shared
  11. screen shares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screen saver (page history and authors); screensaver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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